Are the religious freedoms of our police officers being threatened? What do you think?

From Daily Mail. Jacob Kersey, 19, resigned from the department in Port Wentworth, just a few miles outside Savannah, after refusing to remove a post on Facebook regarding gay marriage and his Christian faith.

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Kersey … wrote in the post: ‘God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That’s why there’s no such thing as homosexual marriage.’

He then said that on January 13, the post was flagged by supervisors at the department that ‘an anonymous complaint’ had led to a warning and Kersey being placed on paid administrative leave.

The department ‘did not find sufficient evidence to establish a violation of any policies’ but Major Bradwick Sherrod said that further posts ‘could raise reasonable concerns regarding your objectivity and the performance of your job duties.’

Sherrod said that it could break trust with the community in an incident involving ‘a member or suspected member of the LGBTQ+ community.’ …

Going further, he alleged his chief compared his post to having used the N-word or saying a slur against homosexuals.

He eventually resigned on January 18, five days after the initial letter, according to the New York Post.

‘I didn’t feel confident that if I were to go out there on the streets and enforce the law, that my command staff was going to have my back,’ he said. …

He said he has spoken with a law firm about possible legal action.

‘That is such a dangerous precedent: that if you’re off-duty on your own time, that you could say anything – even something religious, even something at church – if someone somewhere gets offended, you can get fired for it,’ he added. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: Logan Weaver on Unsplash)